Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism : The Tide of a Great Popular Movement.
Title:
Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism : The Tide of a Great Popular Movement.
Author:
Melton, Jeffrey Alan.
ISBN:
9780817313500
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Series:
Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Success of Travel Books and the Failure of Tourism -- 2. Tourism and Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Touring the Old World: Faith and Leisure in The Innocents Abroad and A Tramp Abroad -- 4. Touring the New World: The Search for Home in Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi -- 5. Touring the Round: Imperialism and the Failure of Travel Writing in Following the Equator -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives--The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator--demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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